Dennis Hastert Quotes
Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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As the law minister, I had ensured that the government's right to natural resources was protected. The result was evident. The honourable Supreme Court gave the landmark decision in RIL vs RNRL case that the government is the owner of all natural resources.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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Mr. Obama denounced the $2.3 trillion added to the national debt on Mr. Bush's watch as 'deficits as far as the eye can see.' But Mr. Obama's budget adds $9.3 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years. What happened to Obama the deficit hawk?
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Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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I'm no wizard, and I don't like being thought of in that light at all. I think of a wizard as being some sort of magician or something, doing something on the sly or something, and I don't want to be thought of in that way.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
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Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.
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Mike Oxley has provided steady, dedicated leadership to House Republicans, and I am grateful for his service.
